Giraffes actually are not one species, but four, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata)...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
According to an international team of researchers from Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, people with a variation in a particular gene tend...
In an animal study, an international team of researchers led by Medical Research Council (MRC) Harwell Institute scientist Dr. Steve Brown has uncovered...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...
An international team of researchers from Singapore and the United Kingdom has identified an enzyme that regulates the production of sperm and egg cells...
A team of scientists led by Prof. Stacey Harmer of the University of California, Davis, has discovered how sunflowers use their circadian clock, acting...
According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated...
A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry.
The team identified 17 new genetic...
New research is casting doubt on a widely held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins.
DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck...
This false-color image shows Escherichia coli. Image credit: Geralt.
‘Superbug’ bacteria affect two million people and kill at least 23,000 Americans...
The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...
A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape.
Image showing variation between...
In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...
In a large-scale international study, researchers have identified three genetic variants associated with subjective well-being (happiness), two variants...
An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...
